Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...

Hopkins applied mathematicians, astronomers develop method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those ...

So many fascinating pictures of space don’t actually come from NASA or even a satellite. They come from someone with a telescope and a camera. Astro photography is a cool hobby, but it can be ...

Observatory focused on Sagittarius B2, giant molecular cloud located just a few hundred light-years from supermassive black ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

The nighttime skies will be filled with shooting stars in the coming weeks due to the annual Perseid meteor shower. The meteor shower is considered the best of the year due to the bright and frequent ...